Sarah Williams vividly(生动地，清晰地) remembers the night in 2016 when she camped overnight in a car park to put down a deposit(支付定金) on a flat in the newly completed Spectrum Building in Dagenham, east London.
莎拉·威廉姆斯清晰地记得2016年的那个夜晚，当时她在停车场露营过夜，只为在伦敦东部达格纳姆新建成的Spectrum大楼里为一套公寓支付定金。
“People started queuing(排队) for those flats 24 hours before they went on sale,” she said. “It was basically the only flat I could afford in London. This was a year before Grenfell(格伦费尔塔火灾), and the flats market in London was completely crazy(疯狂的，极不正常的).”
“人们在这些公寓开售前24小时就开始排队了，”她说。“这基本上是我在伦敦唯一买得起的公寓。那是格伦费尔大火前一年，伦敦的公寓市场完全疯狂。”
Four years later, her flat became unsellable(无法出售的) when they realised it was covered in dangerous, flammable(易燃的) cladding(覆层，外墙装饰板). Another four years and it, like Grenfell Tower in west London in 2017, had burned down.
四年后，当人们意识到她的公寓覆盖着危险易燃的覆层时，它变得无法出售。又过了四年，它像2017年西伦敦的格伦费尔塔一样，被烧毁了。